TAXI STORIES

Hey there, sorry about the previous post. I hit the wrong button. As we have a LOT of Spanish speaking folks here in Tampa who refuse to learn our language I have been surfing the web looking for funny things that have happened to cab drivers. I found the following from a web in San Diego.



I don't speak Spanish, but I've picked up a little bit along the way. A Hyundai Tiburon drove by a cab stand and I said the car is okay, but why does it have a nonsensical name? A Mexican-American driver said it means "shark" in Spanish. I had absolutely no idea. I thought the good folks at Hyndai had tried to invent something! Does anyone know about the Buick LaCrosse in Montreal, or the Chevy Nova in South America?I've been using tiburon on the radio lately. We have some yellow taxis, some blue, and some white. When business is slow drivers will identify themselves as "el bandito azule" for the blue ones, etc. One guy has the ID "el mejor", meaning "the best", on account of getting long rides. When I hear these IDs, I'll say (please forgive the spelling), "Jo soy el tiburon!"On a related theme, I remember when a Mexican driver taught me to say, "How are you?" He said, and again please forgive the spelling, "Comme es ta, culo?"I said that to a few drivers, but thankfully not to any Mexican customers, before somebody explained that it means, "How are you, asshole?" The joke was on the gringo.

Getting back to Tampa, or should I say NPC, meaning New Port Richey where I now reside, I spoke with a driver yesterday driving a County Cab in a parking lot of a Sweet Bay market, she related to me that it is very slow here to.

Will it ever get better, we will just have to wait and see. Gas is going down. But I am fearful for you guys out there that the company (Nancy) will have to help by lowering the lease. Ha fat chance.